In this week’s readings, I learned a lot about different ages of people involved with technology, and I know myself from a very young age was exposed to a wide variety of technology through television and my first mackintosh computer that I had in my home, and learned on in my Elementary school each day for typing lessons.
From Prensky (2001), digital natives constitute an ever-growing
group of children, adolescents, and nowadays young adults (i.e. those born
after 1984; the official beginning of this generation) who have been immersed
in digital technologies all their lives. Per my last post, and attempting to
look at video games in a more academic context (even with jokes), I had to
smile a little bit at the definition of the digital immigrants – those born
before 1984, when 8-bit video games saw the light of day. Digital natives, at least
to Prensky, were assumed to have sophisticated technical and digital skills,
and learning preferences for which traditional education is unprepared and
unfit.
As I mentioned, I have essentially grown up with technology all
around me, and I think it’s interesting to see other generations that were born
before the time of more mainstream technology – television, the internet, video
games, and social media platforms. I look forward to seeing what others have to
say on this.
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